"Because he probably is," Clarisse said turning to Percy, "this is dangerous right? Because I find it hard to believe anything you do is not dangerous."
Percy sighed, "well I wouldn't say it's dangerous…."
"Do you need back up?" Thalia offered.
Percy shook his head, "no, not really. It's more of a solo thing, I don't think you guys can help."
"We can try," Annabeth shot back.
"Sigh, fine," Percy groaned, "you people are as stubborn as me."
"Yup," Michael agreed, "so when do we start?"
Percy rubbed his temples, "I was hoping tonight. The time needed for creating the weapon in unknown. It could be a few days, or weeks."
"Fine, when and where," Thalia asked.
"The Fist of Zeus, 11," Percy said and his friends nodded in agreement. Percy then turned to Nina, "oh and Nina could you do me a favour?"
Percy spent some more time with them before he went to his cabin and meet John inside. After telling his half-brother what he did for the day Percy changed his shirt and took a quick shower. The way he saved those people still filled Percy up with happiness. Maybe after all of this is over he should become a superhero or something. After all being a hero was what he was meant to be.
After the shower Percy sat down and took out the scroll of sword creation. He read and reread the spell Odysseus had written down, he didn't want any mistake for when actually did the spell.
After reading that paper more time than he could count, Percy took out Riptide and looked at the blade. For the spell to work he needed a piece of this and his crystal, meaning Percy had to find a way to break off a peice of both.
But as he knew first hand, breaking celestial bronze was next to impossible. The only time he ever say a celestial bronze weapon break was during the battle between himself and Luke. Percy had just found out that Luke was the lightning thief and he was angry. He used sheer force to attack Luke, so maybe the answer was that, shee force.
Percy opened his inventory and pulled out another celestial bronze blade of his, this one he got from Hephaestus forge in Boston. Percy then held Riptide with his left as he continuously brought down the other celestial bronze blade over and over on top of Riptide.
As Percy kept hitting the blade more and more of the ordinary celestial bronze blade broke off instead of Riptide. It seemed almost impossible to break off the piece of the legendary blade when suddenly Percy noticed a small crack near the tip of the blade.
The crack itself was strange, Percy had no idea how it got there. So far he had only hit Riptide in the middle, for a crack to appear near the tip….something else must have caused it. But Percy didn't know what, and he had never seen that crack before, he had literally spent the night before maintaining the blade and he didn't see one crack.
It was almost like the crack just appeared out of thin air.
Percy put away the other sword as he grabbed the tip of his blade and pressed down on it. Percy tried his best but the metal still held on strong. So Percy activated his Body Form;
Body Form Activated: Right arm
And he slowly felt the metal bend under his strength.
Crunk!
That was the sound of the tip being chipped off by Percy. The demigod held up the tip of his sword between his finger as he deactivated his strength. The sliver of metal wasn't much, one could hardly see the chip in the metal of Riptide unless they knew where to look.
Percy then put he sliver of metal and Riptide away;
Progress made!
Create your own weapon!
3- A peice of an item that you hold dear to your heart (Completed)!
'Guess that means I can't use more than one item for that creation,' Percy realised meaning his plans for also using a part of his crystal was scrapped as well. It was for the best, in all honesty he had no idea how he would even begin to cut a piece of the crystal out of his head.
Soon it was time and Percy snuck out of his cabin the moment John went to bed. Percy reached the Fist of Zeus and waiting on top of the rock structure. He didn't have to wait long because the rest of his friends soon joined him.
"Here you go Percy," Nina said as she handed Percy a big celestial bronze cauldron, "it was actually pretty easy to find. Surprisingly the art department has a lot of these."
Percy nodded taking the pit, "thanks Nina, this will help me a lot."
"So what exactly if the plan?" Michael asked.
"I do the spell and….well I don't know really. I think I just go into a trance or something."
"You sure about this sea brain?" Thalia asked.
Percy smiled, "is that concern I hear in your voice Thalia?"
The daughter of Zeus narrowed her eyes as Annabeth stepped up, "Percy are you sure about this?"
Percy nodded, "yup."
Lie successful!
Annabeth sighed, "okay then. What do we do?"
Percy say down on the stone structure with the bronze cauldron placed in front of him, "stand back, and watch."
The demigods all stood back as Percy opened his inventory and took out all he needed. He first took out his mom's blood and poured it into the cauldron. He then put in the shard of Riptide before taking out a small amount of his own blood using blood control. With that all done Percy opened up his inventory and pulled out the fang of Janai'ngo he pulled out of Mere;
Fang of Janai'ngo
A fang of the legendary monster of the deep. It's poisonous nature will bring death with the slightest touch.
Effect: causes -100 HP damage per minute.
Percy put the fang into the cauldron and then took out the final ingredient, the blood of Poseidon.
"Percy," Annabeth started, "is that ichor?"
Percy nodded as he took off the cork and poured the golden blood into the cauldron, "it's my dad's."
"You are using the blood of Poseidon?" Thalia asked surprised, "Percy….are you sure you want to do this?"
The son of Poseidon nodded as he looked deep into Thalia's eyes, "I have to. I need to be the best that I can be, and I can't be that if I continue to play it safe. I need to take risks."
"Fine," Thalia sighed, "stubborn brat."
Percy smiled and turned to cauldron. Only two more things remained to be done. Percy summon a fireball in both his hands and placed it below the cauldron heating it all up.
Slowly the blood started to boil as Percy began the spell;
[The light shines when darkness calls.
The power of one cause will always fall.
It is together that achievement is near at all.
The will of Green, the rage of Red, the fear of Yellow and the hope of Blue.
The love of Violet, the compassion of Indigo and the greed of orange shall lead me true.
Be it result in life or death, I make this pact.
And with the power of the universe, I enable this act.
I am Perseus Jackson, a pilgrim of Greece, I seek power to rule myself and protect what I believe.
I invoke the Will of the Gods and of man, guide me upon this journey towards my wayward land.]
Suddenly the blood started spinning clockwise as the fang of Janai'ngo slowly started to melt like candle wax. The shard of Riptide glowed bright blue but was soon covered by the blood and the remains of the melted fangs.
Percy's eyes started to glow green before they exploded into a white light. A wave of white energy exploded outwards forming a shield between Percy and the demigods around him.
"Percy!" Thalia shouted as she tried to punch the barrier only to be thrown back by the white power.
"Thalia!" Annabeth shouted moving to help her friend.
"We can't break through!" Clarisse shouted out as they simply stood there and watched Percy stare straight ahead.
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